2021 UCSF-Stanford CERSI Innovations in Regulatory Science Summit

The UCSF-Stanford Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (UCSF-Stanford CERSI) was pleased to present the 2nd annual Innovations in Regulatory Science Summit, a gathering of leaders in the academia, industry and regulatory sectors to discuss the role of regulatory science in medical product development. The 2021 CERSI Innovations in Regulatory Science Summit had a major focus on the COVID-19 pandemic including panel discussions on infectious disease and pandemic preparedness as well as how the pandemic continued to affect the development and approval of medical products targeted to other diseases. We also included a panel focused on the development of innovative medical products for cancer. The goal of the summit was to stimulate discussion across sectors and to critically consider lessons learned and scientific issues that need addressing to expeditiously and safely advance the development, approval and monitoring of medical products, particularly for infectious disease but also for oncology and other diseases.

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Panel Discussions

  • Scientific Issues that Underlie the Development, Assessment and Repurposing of Medical Products for Infectious Diseases
  • Accelerating the Development and Assessment of Novel Therapies for Cancer: What is Needed
  • Pandemic Preparedness: Lessons Learned from COVID-19
  • Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Research, Development and Regulatory Review of Medical Products for Other Indications

Keynote Addresses

  • Peter Marks, MD, PhD - Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at FDA
  • Jeffrey Shuren, MD, JD - Director, Center for Devices and Radiological Health at FDA
  • Janet Woodcock, MD - Director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research on detail to Operation Warp Speed and Principal Medical Advisor to the Commissioner at FDA

Schedule

Times shown in Pacific time (UTC-8)

8:00 - 8:05 am

Welcome

Kuldev Singh, MD,  MPH - Professor of Ophthalmology at Stanford University

8:05 - 8:10 am

Opening Remarks from UCSF

Sam Hawgood, MD - Chancellor, University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

8:10 - 8:15 am

Opening Remarks from Stanford

Marc Tessier-Lavigne, PhD - President, Stanford University

8:15 - 8:30 am

The UCSF-Stanford Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation: Advancing the Development, Approval and Surveillance of Medical Products

Kathy Giacomini, PhD - Co-Director of UCSF-Stanford CERSI

8:30 - 8:50 am

Keynote Address - The US Clinical Trial Ecosystem Is Deficient

Janet Woodcock, MD - Director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research on detail to Operation Warp Speed and Principal Medical Advisor to the Commissioner at FDA

Moderated by Kathy Giacomini, PhD - Professor of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at UCSF

8:50 - 10:00 am

Panel 1 - Scientific Issues that Underlie the Development, Assessment, and Repurposing of Medical Products for Infectious Diseases

Moderators:

Robert M. Califf, MD - Head of Clinical Policy and Strategy for Verily and Google Health

Janet Woodcock, MD - Director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research on detail to Operation Warp Speed and Principal Medical Advisor to the Commissioner at FDA

Panelists:

Diana Brainard, MD - Senior Vice President and Virology Therapeutic Area Head at Gilead Sciences

George Scangos, PhD - President and Chief Executive Officer of Vir Biotechnology

RADM Denise Hinton, MS - Chief Scientist at FDA

Peter Kim, PhD - Professor of Biochemistry at Stanford

10:00 - 10:10 am Break
10:10 - 11:20 am 

Panel 2 - Accelerating the Development and Assessment of Novel Therapies for Cancer: What Is Needed

Moderators:

Laura Esserman, MD, MBA - Professor of Surgery and Radiology at UCSF

Peter Marks, MD, PhD - Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at FDA

Panelists:

Gideon Blumenthal, MD - Vice President of Global Regulatory Affairs for Oncology at Merck

Martha Donoghue, MD - Acting Deputy Director, Division of Oncology 2, Offices of Oncologic Diseases at FDA

John Tsai, MD - Head of Global Drug Development and Chief Medical Officer at Novartis 

George Yancopoulos, MD, PhD - Co-Founder, President and Chief Scientific Officer at Regeneron

11:20 - 11:40 am 

Keynote Address - Advancing Bespoke Therapeutics

Peter Marks, MD, PhD - Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at FDA

Moderated by Kuldev Singh, MD, MPH - Professor of Ophthalmology at Stanford University

11:40 - 12:10 pm

Lightning Talks in Regulatory Sciences

Room 1 - Moderator: Kuldev Singh, MD,  MPH - Professor of Ophthalmology at Stanford University

Speakers: 

Improving Precision and Power in Randomized Trials for COVID-19 Treatments Using Covariate Adjustment, for Binary, Ordinal, and Time-to-Event Outcomes - Michael Rosenblum, PhD - Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins

The ISPY COVID Trial: Adapting Lessons Learned in Oncology to Combat the Pandemic - Carolyn Calfee, MD, Professor of Medicine at UCSF

Vaccine Platforms for Rapid Product Development - Wilbur Chen, MD, MS - Professor of Medicine at University of Maryland

Room 2 - Moderator: Laura Esserman, MD, MBA - Professor of Surgery and Radiology at UCSF

Speakers: 

Purposeful Trials - Clive Meanwell, MD, PhD - Executive Chairman of Population Health Partners

Studying SARS-COV-2 through an international collaboration - Nevan Krogan, PhD - Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at UCSF

"Unconventional" Therapeutics: Host-Directed Anti-Infective Agents - Jason Sello, PhD - Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at UCSF

Room 3 - Moderator: Kathy Giacomini, PhD - Professor of Bioengineering at Therapeutic Sciences at UCSF

Speakers:

Pediatric Drug Policies Supporting Safe And Effective Use of Therapeutics in Children - Florence Bourgeois, MD, MPH - Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard

Quantifying Physical Function Using Wearables and Patient Reported Outcomes in Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy - Gita Thanarajasingham, MD - Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic

Hard to Control Diabetes State Preference for Islet Cell Transplant: FDA Biologics Sponsored Studies - Leslie Wilson, PhD - Professor of Clinical Pharmacy at UCSF

12:10 - 12:20 pmBreak
12:20 - 1:30 pm

Panel 3 - Pandemic Preparedness: Lessons Learned from COVID-19

Moderators:

Joe DeRisi, PhD - Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF

Anne Wojcicki - CEO and Co-Founder of 23andMe

Panelists:

Amy Abernethy, MD, PhD - Principal Deputy Commissioner at FDA

Michael Drake, MD - President, University of California

Sam Hawgood, MD - UCSF Chancellor

Mark McClellan, MD, PhD - Professor of Business, Medicine and Health Policy at Duke

Jeff Shuren, MD, JD - Director of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health at FDA

1:30 - 1:50 pm

Keynote Address - Update from CDRH

Jeff Shuren, MD, JD - Director of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health at FDA

Moderated by Laura Esserman, MD, MBA - Professor of Surgery and Radiology at UCSF

1:50 - 3:00 pm

Panel 4 - Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Research, Development and Regulatory Review of Medical Products for Other Indications

Moderators: 

Jennifer Cochran, PhD - Chair of Bioengineering at Stanford

Andy Plump, MD, PhD - President, Research & Development at Takeda

Panelists:

Hal Barron, MD - Chief Scientific Officer at GlaxoSmithKline

Patrizia Cavazzoni, MD - Acting Director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at FDA

Mathai Mammen, MD, PhD - Global Head of Research and Development at Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson

Clive Meanwell, MD, PhD - Executive Chairman of Population Health Partners

George Yancopoulos, MD, PhD - Co-Founder, President and Chief Scientific Officer at Regeneron

Sponsors

Merck sponsor
Verily sponsor
Gilead sponsor